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San Diego Restaurants
Looking for a place to go out, well San Diego seems to be a sea of Carl’s Jr’s and King’s Table, Costco hot dogs and other fast food places. Moreover, like LA, the traffic is so bad, you can’t just go out, you’ve got to plan. Besices the San Diego local newspaper called the “San…
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Graphedit to debug audio and video problems
REALtime FM MP3 Recordeing. When you load as many codecs as I do, it is often mysterious what is really going on, so there is a tool called graphedit from DirectX toolkit lets you find it. You load the File Open and you can see what DirectX would actually load. You can load it from…
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Ken Burns Effects Fast and Easy
Panning and Zooming on Photographs2. While you can create your own with a general purpose tool, About.com has some good advice about specific tools. These take a bunch of photos and does the Ken Burns thing, they then product video files that you can then stuff into a DVD. bq. The best way to achieve…
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Ken Burns Effects in Vegas
Learn to Pan/Crop in Sony Vegas. There is also a nice guide in the product, but this is a quick lesson in how to create movement in a bunch of stills. Apparently there are products that do this automatically, so you don’t have to set a crop and path for every photo according to Bill.
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San Francisco Day Spas
San Francisco Day Spas. A great list of spas in San Francisco.
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Vegas importing from a still camera
VEGAS FAQ!. My latest problem. You can actually see the video which comes out as a .AVI, but Vegas (a.k.a. Video Explosion) can’t read it. Here’s the FAQ from a very useful Vegas site called vasst.com. Much more useful than the Sony site.. Why can’t Vegas see the video from a file captured by a…
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Unlocking your Sony VGN-630B
The Future of Music Weblog. Here’s how to unlock your Sony notebook SIM so overseas you can use other data services: 1. **Very IMPORTANT** Before starting anything, make sure you have the ORIGINAL Cingular SIM inserted in your laptop. It will NOT unlock if you have your T-Mobile SIM inside during the unlocking phase. 2.…
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Sony VGN-TX630B Downlaods
Sony eSupport – VGN-TX630P. It isn’t obvious where to find it, but this is where you find the latest updated drivers. Probably the most importatn right now is the Wireless LAN update. It should fix lots of 2200BG problems. I still have a problem with Cingular Connection Manager. After a while the low level driver…
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CD Ripping for Geeks
While 99.99% of all folks will just use the built in ripping in iTunes or Windows, for the true geek, there are really only two ways to do it. Either use Exact Audio Copy or dbPowerAmp with Accuraterip and LAME. So its complicated, but worth it for accuracy. Here’s a quick guide for fellow geeks:…
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Zone Alarm System Error
broadband ? Forums ? Security ? Zone Alarm upgrade problem…. If you upgrade an old version, life is hell., In fact Zone Alarm locks up the internet. Instructions on how to clean it up. Also “Iggy”:http://iggyz.com/unzap.html has the details: REBOOT. To make sure that you can see the ZoneAlarm Plus/Pro system files, if they are…
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Limited or No Connectivity with Windows XP SP2
PC Hell: How to Fix Problem with Limited or No Connectivity After Installing Windows XP SP2. I get this error quite a bit on my Wifi clients. This might be the hotfix that repairs it. Other folks have reported that installing the latest Intel Proset Wireless client helps.
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Bicycle Shop San Diego
_Wow, local search on google has sure gotten good. On “A9”:http://a9.com/bicycle%20shop%20san%20diego gets you the usual hash. You get a pseudo directory that is clearly SEOed but useless. On the other hand with “google”:http://www.google.com/search?q=san+diego+bicycle+shop&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official, even though a9 buys from them, the query is much more useful. First, they have a structure local query that is much…
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AC3, H.264 and every other decoding
OK, if you need to decode AC3 and other contnet, you can either download specific codec from xVid or for Free-Codecs.com :: Download AC3 Filter 1.02a test8 : AC3 Filter is a DirectShow filter for AC3 decoding. However, most folks will be happier with “FFDshow”:http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/codecs_and_filters/ffdshow.cfm, this is a multiformat decoder includes video formats including Xvid,…
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Luigi's Mission Park
GoNOMAD–Destination Guide to San Diego California. _A great pizza place and find in San Diego. Very close to authentic. Most amazing part is that they have 30 inch pizzas. Pasta’s aren’t bad either._ After working up an appetite wandering through Mission Beach, Luigi’s is the perfect place to satisfy hunger. It’s a small joint, but…
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Vega 6.0 and Video Explosion do not detect CD drive
This is a super annoying problem that comes up with most applications that access CDs. Many programs use a programming layer called the Adaptec Systems Programming Interface or ASPI. About 5 years ago, Adaptec and Microsoft had a fight about licensing and Microsoft took it out of Windows. As a result many programs continue to…
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Cold Case Music
cold case. Seems like scores on shows like Cold Case are great ways to ehar music. A great site there.
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vegas
Sony Vegas 6 Pays Off. I’ve actually loved SolnicFolundry’s early efforts and Vegas 6 doesn’t get reviewed by the mainstream magazines, but perhaps it cuts the difference between hard to understand professional stuff like Adobe Premiere Elements and easier to use buy buggy programs from Ulead and Pinnacle. In any case, for $130, you get…
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Pinnacle Studio Plus and MediaSuite
. If you are lucky enough to have a high definition camcorder then you need a way to edit the video. Pinnacle is the only consumer package I know that can handle that. $80 for Sutdio Plus and $100 with MediaSuite. The MediaSuite includes Jasc Paint Shop and also audio editing with Steinber WaveLab. Most…
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KLH Digital is really an Apex
VideoHelp.com – DVD Player Compatibility List. Bill has a knock off KLH DVD-857. I don’t have any idea what this is. But, the KLH Digital 1220 is actually a rebadged Apex 1100W, so I’m guesiing all KLH Digitals are really Apexs. He uses it because it is region free and reads just about anything. Plus…
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San Diego Bicycle Rentals
Phil found a great set of sites that let you out into the great ourdoors in San Diego. San Diego Kayaking & Bike Tours in San Diego with Hike Bike Kayak San Diego (866) 425-2925. . They run a whole series of tours. 10% off for bicycling and hiking. Ohter things that they have are:…
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HP DX5150
AnandTech: HP DX5150 â OEM plus AMD. A good review of a business system. Interesting to see how performance has really converged. If you upgrade the video card, then you have a very high performance machine. They recommend the DX5150 X2 3800+ “Smart Buy”:http://h71016.www7.hp.com/dstore/MiddleFrame.asp?page=config&ProductLineId=429&FamilyId=2178&BaseID=16561&jumpid=re_R2515_store/smProdCat/BusinessDesktopPCs/sku_dx5150. This actually has a Athlon 3800+ X2 in it and is…
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King County now has Digital Music
King County Library System – Digital Books – OverDrive eMusic. How way cool. You can now check out digital music from the King County Library. Just need a library card and then you can use OverDrive to get eMusic and Books. Mainly classical music, but some great ones.
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More Nero Tools
Nero [Clean Tools]. There are many great tools that Nero has on their site. Here are some that clean up the registry completely.
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Video Editing Reviews: Microsoft Movie Maker and Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0
_I’m going through all the editing programs trying to find one that is easy and powerful_ I’m going to surprise myself and say that while I like Sonic Foundry quite a lot, I’m surprised by how good the Microsoft Movie Maker actually is. Its based on an old version of Roxio, but it is surprisingly…
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Nero Speed Limits
Nero on our DFI LanParty nF4 Ultra D mysteriously has gotten confused about the maximum write speeds of both a Benq DW1640 and a Ricoh drives. It thinks the Benq only writes at 4x and the Ricoh at 2.4x. The main issue appears to be that it doesn’t actually set the burn speed until *after*…
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Asus A8R-MVP and DFI LanParty nf4 SLI-DR Expert
AnandTech: Asus A8R-MVP: Mainstream Rocket. There is a new king of overclocking. For the last year or so, DFI has made the fastest boards with the overclocking. Now the value oriented A8R-MVP along with the ATI Crossfire X1800XT is just amazingly quick. Or, if you have lots of dough, the “DFI LanParty nF4 SLI-DR Expert”:http://anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2620…
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Best Spa in South Bay
Saratoga CA Day Spa, Los Gatos Day Spa, Consulting – Preston Wynne. Hey Peter told me that this was a great spa place in the South Bay. Check it out. Seems very nice!
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Besplit or MP3DirectCut and what about Besweet Light
“Besplit”:http://besplit.doom9.org/ is a utlity that cuts up an MP3 file intelligently, so it happens on blank spaces. I’ve been using MP3DirectCut to do a similar thing, so another option if you’ve got a big file that needs to be cut. Another hat tip goes to “Besweet Light”:http://belight.corecodec.org/. This is an easy to understand tool that…
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SD Memory Card REview
EXTREME Overclocking – 1GB & 2GB ATP Secure Digital SD Memory Card Review – Page: 6 – Tweaking PC Hardware To The Max. Memory cards are all pretty much the same, but for $68 vs. $50 for a vanilla card, you get one that is about twice as fast on writing. 10MBps is 60x the…
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Philips 7FF1AW Digital Photo Display
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